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Journal Article
A Strategy to Control Transmission of Schistosoma japonicum in China
2009
Overview
Schistosoma japonicum
has been successfully controlled in villages along Poyang Lake, the largest freshwater lake in China. In addition to synchronous chemotherapy for humans and cattle, successful interventions have included the removal of cattle from snail-infested grasslands, improvements in sanitation, and intensive health education. The use of such interventions has now been adopted as the national control strategy for China.
Schistosoma japonicum
has been successfully controlled in villages along Poyang Lake, the largest freshwater lake in China. In addition to synchronous chemotherapy for humans and cattle, successful interventions have included the removal of cattle from snail-infested grasslands, improvements in sanitation, and intensive health education.
During the past five decades, the Chinese government has placed a high priority on the control of schistosomiasis and has carried out many control programs.
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These efforts have resulted in a substantial reduction in the prevalence of infection with
Schistosoma japonicum
in humans, from approximately 11.6 million cases in the mid-1950s to 726,000 cases in 2004.
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The number of provinces in which this disease is endemic has been reduced from 12 to 7. In spite of these achievements, progress in the control of this disease appeared to be stagnating.
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National surveys of schistosomiasis in China showed that the . . .
Publisher
Massachusetts Medical Society
Subject
/ Animals
/ Biological and medical sciences
/ Communicable Disease Control - economics
/ Communicable Disease Control - methods
/ Disease Transmission, Infectious - prevention & control
/ Humans
/ Lakes
/ Mollusks
/ Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine
/ Schistosoma japonicum - isolation & purification
/ Schistosomiasis japonica - epidemiology
/ Schistosomiasis japonica - prevention & control
/ Schistosomiasis japonica - transmission
